CPMS: Knowledge

Benefits of a Knowledge Sharing Environment
o Reduced project risk exposure: avoid known risks & identify risk heuristics
o Innovation & learning result from cross-pollenation of ideas
o Project/Program Capability Increases
o Good practices can be identified
o Collective expertise can be built
o Tools can be developed and re-used while sharing costs
o Permits an organisation to evolve and adapt collectively
o Increases an organisations’ ability to compete
o Facilitates measurement & comparison
o Confidence: cross-checking of ideas increases confidence
o General awareness: sharing information on a 'needs to know' basis leads to problems ('we don't know what we don't know')

How Can CPMS Enable Your Knowledge Environment?
We take a common sense approach and work closely with our clients to find solutions that fit their needs best.

We do this with practical solutions such as:-
o Standardised performance measures and reporting systems to measure benefits
o Online project libraries that bind dispersed team members together and preserve information
o Quality internal handbook documentation
o Internal media to foster a knowledge sharing environment
o Effective metadata with search engine across all repositories
o Organisation-wide ‘yellow pages’ enabling experts to be found
o Communities of practice (Special Interest Groups)
o Enterprise tool solutions
o Virtual teamworking
o Management soft skill top-up
o Internal accreditation courses for project members and partners/sub-contractors to complete the learning cycle
o Interviewing/production of quality lessons learned
o Regular presentations sharing valuable new knowledge
o Internal seminars focussing on key issues
o Individual acknowledgement and award programs
o Project extranets to bind partner companies together
o Wider knowledge networks
o and more...

So What Exactly is Knowledge?
We believe that Knowledge differs from information.
We believe that while information can be codified, stored & transmitted, knowledge can only exist in the mind of a living creature. Information only becomes knowledge via the learning process and this requires us to understand, feel and empathise with the information before it becomes knowledge in our own mind.

Because 'knowledge' has such a personal and human aspect to it, we believe that the knowledge environment must focus on networks of people and not simply enterprise tools and repositories.

What is a Knowledge Environment?
A knowledge environment delivers value to an organization by increasing its ability to learn and be productive.

It does this by:-
o Fostering an appropriate culture
o Facilitating collaboration
o Fostering the sharing of knowledge between projects

Inherant Cultural Knowledge
Organisational culture is in itself tacit knowledge and is arguably the most distinctive and valuable asset that an organisation has. If your organisational culture could serve you better then vision and leadership will be required to change this. Don’t ignore culture simply because measurement is difficult. CPMS can help you develop a program that identifies gaps in the way your organisation shares knowledge and measures it’s benefit. A knowledge network is more powerful than knowledgeable individuals.

CPMS can help you achieve your goals so call to discuss your needs.